Sir Anthony van Dyck was a Baroque painter and portraitist, one of the most important of the English court after having enjoyed a great success in Italy and Flanders. He painted the elegant Genoese society in an exceptional deployment of sumptuous dress as in this Portrait of a Genoese Noblewoman. The gold linear pattern on the tail of her robe and the scrollwork on her cloak are represented on this beautifully elegant and refined scarf.